How to Understand Your Website’s statistics

In the early days of the Internet it was common to visit a web site and see a counter informing you that "you are the 118,456th visitor to this site", and various webmasters would proudly talk of how many "hits" their sites were getting. Now, things have changed and you will mostly find counters on amateur sites, and wiser webmasters now know that the term…

Are You Marketing A Product That’s Unrealistic For You?

Fact: There are far more people wishing to make substantial incomes from home over the Internet than there are actually doing it. That's an obvious statement to be sure, but why is that true? One factor often overlooked in my opinion is that many people make poor selections when choosing what they should sell. People, more often than not, decide what business to enter based…

Flipping the Switch … How To Turn Off

So, you work from home. Good for you! No boss looking over your shoulder, no wasting time commuting to and from the office, no-one setting your hours for you or telling you what to do. No one to care if you're wearing your rattiest clothes or don't take a shower before 10:00 am. And how about no life and no time for yourself while we're…

Flashing your Email: The Good, Bad and Ugly of using Flash & Rich Media in your Email!

Lately there has been a great deal of interest in adding Flash to your everyday run-of-the-mill email so you can send it to your clients, prospects or newsletter subscribers. Marketing has descended from upon high and declared it, the small business client wants it, or an executive in management has read about it. Well, why not? The fact of the matter is that email HTML…

Success Stories: Dave Adamczyk, FlamingBaseball.com

Dave Adamczyk and his son Tyler are both avid athletes. Dave went to college on a football scholarship and has been a fan every since. Tyler is a professional baseball player, pitching for the St. Louis Cardinal's AAA team the Johnson City Cardinals. So a site named "FlamingBaseball.com" just made sense. Starting out as a hobby, the site made over $145,000 in sales its first…